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B^ / Back Aberhart C«itC»tY- â€" Endoisation of the Govefjiment of Premier William AlK-rhart has been voted, by reao- lulitXi^ by all groups of the Alber- ta Spiral Credit League hard from but 'Mie â€" Ked Deer â€" the Premier atiiKHiU'jcd Sunday at the Calgary Pro|>liieUc Bible Institute. 'â- Nfc>t a-' group-, have been heard froiii yet, but the response has been most gratifying," the Premier said, "â- â- ('lie majority are opposed to aiiy .:liaf!!>'c." Canada Will Shun War I.-i>ndc«i. â€" Canadian and Austral- iait :iOlliers are unlikely ever again to coAle to Europe to fight, the Sun- day Times said Sunday in an edi- tarvAl on tho Imperial conference to ?ve, l^eld after the Coronation. S'lCSKing its view that interna- ti'>n«l 'affairs and Imperial defense will take up most of the confer- eii'.e'ti time, the newspaper says the Dominion's reject the doctrine that "|i"acc i.-. one and indivisible," at leaHt iu iU more inflexible fonr.s. • Here," tlie editorial continues, "their vie'v accords substantially wi';1i Iha!, of the Biiti.sh Government. Th.- people of the Dominions also sh;nc with the people of Great Brit- ai.T « profound aversion to the idea of ;:o1i.Scripting ycung men to fi^^ht onoc more in ina.v. battles on the Continent of Europe. "No more Ctt^i'diiVii or Ausualian army corps ar-> Ii-keiy to travel oversea-;, even for l-'r-Hicc or fo)- Flanders." George VI Ftz. 3-. Ready On April 1 Oitawa. â€" The Postoffice Depart- motit has announced ii new, non- conmiemorative rejrular issue of Can;u1iin postag; stamps. bearing the portrait of King George V'l. will be available .\pril 1 in demnom- ination^ of 1 "cnt green, 2 cents bi-.)5\ii and " cents led. further denominations of this .sorlci if. 4, 5 and 8 cent issues wei>e '.-Kpected to be issued later. C>ctait.-5 of the new Coronation itwuo will bo announced later. N=w ''en'"'^'' Oahawa. â€" General Motor.-t has cx- tcsided inothor ixnefit to the work- ers, it v.'as learred here over the we-."k-e'id ;. .. illTeclive Monday''%e weekly sick- ness* and non-occupational accilent benofit, payable 'indcr the General Motors gi'oup-insurance policy, will bf increa:-!cd fron, $10 to $14 per wo.'k. This is an increase of 40 |K-i cent, in the benefit rates, and will be made available to the cm- plovce.-i without any additional pay- i-.KWu by them, thi- company absorb- Inic the added cost. The 'ilin will fhen provide "week- ly sicUress and non-occupalional nccjilent benefit of S'-l- !> wee'', ra''- abk" for thirteen weeks for any one illae.ss or non-occupational acci- dent." Lct-0--3 Mr.iled 'i Fire-Bc?: Souiids A!?*""" EdvnJdton. â€" Confused cilizen.s "inailino; letteis in fire-alarm ho.ves" wero given as the "cause" of two fal.s" tiro alarinr in Edmonton in ];>3(>, ac:'ordinir to the annual re- (lort of Fire Chief .Albert Dutton. .Seattle. â€" The first ten -ye.nrs of ni.ri'ricd life are the most difficult - â€" H'ld ti'e third vear is the worst of ;MI â€" Divorce Ti-PocLor Evangel- ine Stiir'- stated in her annital re- port to Prosecutor Gray Warner. She said hei' statistics indicated hus- band.-i" fondness for litiuor in the priucip il cause of divorce. '•sctcs"' n^r pâ€" . i!diii!iilon. â€" Wage increases af- fecting about l.OOO men and women pin{)loyed by fou: Edmonton pick- initt plants were announced Satur- ria.v. Increases, erl'ective at once, of 8V-> celits an hour for all hourly» paid iniilc employees and GVi ce'its for females were decided upon by Swift C'anadian. Hums, Gainers and Canada Packers Companies. Jliiiimani was:e rates of 4-"> cents an hour for men and Sfi cents for Wiimeii will be in force in .-'.ll iilants under the nevv pl.-in, ofliciuls of the foitiimnics said. Oize3^ Marie 111 Bucharest, K'.nianian.-â€" Dowager Quv'OU Marie, on? of the most color- fal members of European royalty, wus seriously ill c.f intestinal poison- i*iar Sunday niR-ht She is in her (i2nd year. Members of her family have fc-c-n su.iinioned to her bedside. .\uthm'ities notified the Queen's throe daughters â€" Queen Mother Marie of Jugoslavia, ex-Queen Eliza- ke;li of Greece and the .â- Xrchduchess 'Aiiton of Hapsburg. The Jugoslav- ian Queen Mother was understood to fcc liurrying here from Belgrade. Farmer'* Wife Vrites Winning Play Re^tna. â€" .A grey-haired farm wo- jBuiii, her husband and a, boy and a Sri fron' the ;\farshall Dramatic ub wil! represent Sa.'s'katchewan at 1^ Dominion Drama Festival in Ot- «kw« asKt month. George de Warfaz of London Sat- urday selected as the best of eight plays presented in the Saskatchewan Regional Festival the oflfering "Re- lief," •written and directed by Mrs. Fred Bicknell, who also took a role. Mr. Bicknell, Archie McArtliur and Anne Mclntyre complete the cast. The four represent a club of only ten members fostering the drama in the hamlet of Marshall, with a pop- ulation of seventy-five. It lies near the -Alberta border, 250 miles north- west of raskatoon. "Relief" tells of the struggle of a farm family in the drought-rid- den plains of Sjuthern Saskatche- wan. Good news from two children in British Columbia comes by tele- graph, ineaning release from the prairies' bare subsistence ; but at that moment the farmer, his spirit broken by his weary wait for better times, commits siiicide. Junior Farmers Juds;2 Geor^otowri. â€" Close competition in all classes marked the Ha'ton County Seed Fair and Junior Far- mers' .f 'd^ina: competition hell in the Towr. Hall on Saturday. .A un- ique feature of the fair is that no .=!eed miv be entered in competition unless the exhibitor i.s prepared to sell a reasonable amount of it. The exhibition is sponsored by the ae:ri- cultural societies of Haltoii County, Esciiiesing TownsMp. and .Acton, in the cream gradinir division. Speakers included Dr G. L. Chr'.s- tie. President of the Ontaiio Agri- cultural College, Guclph; Professor E. J. /-.vitz and J. E. Whitelock, Halton County Agricultural repre- sentative Dr. Christie congratulat- ed the exhibitors at the fair, on the high standards of the 7)roducts dis- played, and the capability of the entrants in the judging competi- tion. Punchboards Fired Lond'Ui, Ont.â€" Six pur;Llii)oa.-ils in his hotelroom rcsultetl in SoO and costs or 30 day.s in jail for Leo Hamany of Toronto. The ac- cused denied to Magistrate Meniies. trying to sell the punchboards. "Someone in Toronto gave them to me 'o try and sell." declared Ha- many. 'However, when I I'.card thcv objected to punchboards here I did not try to sell them." :,^ Higher Wages Seen Toronto. â€" "A 'irovince can only be prosperous as long as the people in that province are prosperous," asserted Elroy Robson, president of the N'ational Labor Council of To- ronto, this week in commenting on the statement of Hon. .Arthur Roe- buck that "any industry which can- not pay the minimum to be set by the government can go out of busi- ness or out of the province." 'Any cxploitatioa of th? workrrj by finance or capital that causes poverty and misery among the people •.* not goo-! for the province, not good for the capital nor for the people, ' Mr. RoUson added. The minimum wage law now be- fore the leffislatjfc is good, in his opinion. "The legislation on the whole is good fo: the great masses or workers, but it should be ade- quately policed," Mr. Robsun stated. "The best way to police it would be to inchioe a clau.se giving workers in industry the right to organize and provide a very severe penalty on any emijloye- who discriminates against workers, cither directly or indirectly for becoming members in trade unions." Wage Increase Granted MONTREAL -â-  Increased wages for 3,000 employees has been an- iiinincod by the .\iumiiiui;i Coniiian.v of Canada. The new scale alTects regular hourly paid workers in the company's plants at Toronto, Shaw- iiiigan Falls. (;;iio., and .\rvi(hi. Qnt-. Walkcrtcn Couple Married 54 Y^ars Walk.M-ton.â€" Mr. and .Mrs. Wil- liam Donny celebrated the fifty- fourth anniversarv of their wedding Sunday, and for the event all mem- bers of their family, six sons and two daughters, were present at a dinner served and the bride and gloom of over a half century ago were at home t.> receive the felici- tations of their family and friends. Mr. William Penny, who celebrat- ed liis natal day in March, was born in Plant and is a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Denny, who pioneered there. For fifty years af- ter graduating from the rural school Mr. Denny carried on farming and threshing business. For the last 2.') years he has been engineer with the Canada Spool and Bobbin ompany. His bride, the former- Miss Mary Sparling, was born in Brock Town< ship, June 19, 1864. Following their marriage by Rev. Mr. Moffat, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Wal- kerton, they took up residence on the old Denny homestead, where they lived until their rewovi'l to Walkerton about a quarter centur:.' ar>. War Not Inevitable Says Dr. Royden Wontan Minister Discusses How Cause of Peace May Best Be Served HALIFAX. â€" Dr. A. Maude Roy- den ot Loudon. England, only woman to hold a doctor of divinity degree In the Church of England, said here last week she did not believe "war is in- evitable in Europe." En route to England after a tour of America in the interests of the national emergency peace campaign of the L'nlted States, Dr. Royden said the best way women cor Id con- tribute to the causo of the peace wa.") "by joining organizations committed to that cause and vhen anyone says war is inevitable, challenge their statement." Dr. Royden who preached at Deer Park United Church Toronto last summer, conducted services at St. Ainirew's Unite! here before sailing for England. SPORT REPORTER Ey KEiJ EDWARDS Hi fulks: Here are just a few facts that are worth placing in that old scrap- book, fro.^^ time to time: Did you know, by any chance, that .Mr. Sea- gram's h o r s e, "Inferno," was the greatest race horse to ever win the King's Plate. .-Also, when '•Inferno's" re- mains were sent to the Veterinary College for autopsy, it was discover- ed that the great racer's big heart weighed 17 pound.-^ â€" just about five more than the heart of the average blood .i<.rse. Interesting, too. is the fact that Relle '.â- 'ahone, wi.ich won the Plate in 11)17, is the >!dest living King's Plate winner. If you don't iielieve in ghosts, maybe you lean towards fairy tales. . . .â€" Do you remember Mi;o? Well, he is said to have been the greatest of ail wrosileis. Mi!o could actually carry an o:t about on his shoulders and write his n-aine on ^ wall with a 100-pocnd weight hanging from his wrist. . . Oh me, a glass of water, flivcs! ... Time marches on, and wfBt^ it more "btlieve it or nots", to (ind that Strmgler Lewis of modern-day wrestling, once throw an 1800- pound i-teer on hi.* farm 1 Send any interesting spoit facts lo Ken. Kdwaruo i.- o Wilso.i i'u:)::.;; ing. 7:; A'leiaide St.. Vi'.. 'i'oron; '. and the si-nder's name wil. be pub- lished IP this column along witii the fact given, Tha I'c you. End cf Air Fatalities Ey 1939 is Fcrecast XEW YORKâ€" Advancement in aeronautical design will make it po.s- sible by 1!)3!) t.) operate transport planes tliroughou'^ the year without a single fatality, :'.ccording to E. R. Breech, chairniar. of the Loard of North American -Aviation. Mr. Dreecli made his prediction before a group :>t airmen and ex- ecutives of transport lines and air- craft .manufacturing companies at a luncheon given by the .Advertising Club to honor Howard Hughes, the transcontinental speed ace. Mr. Hughes, v. oalthy sportsman pilot, .^panned th" continent on Jan. 1".), in '/ hours, 2S minutes and 25 seconds. His aveiage speed was 332 miles an hour or oVi miles a min- ute. He said recently that it would r,e a hard battle with nature to acco'iiplish gr<.--iter speed. On this ])oint Mr. Hughes finish- eil hi.-^ speech, which had to do mainly vith tech ncal and other dif- ficulties in rapid flight. "I am glad Mr Hughes deflated speed," Mr. Breech said. "Ameri- Ciius c.xpeit the impossihlo, .'ind usu- ally get it. But 1 am ulad hi> told about the difficulties so that the public won't expect too much." Mr. Brccc"' noted that dosigucrs were concentrating their efforts on comfort, safety and i|uiet. rather than speed. In the designs for the coming year (1!)3S), he said: "you will see comfort, not speed, repre- senting the greatest advancement." Engineers also are placing great eaiphasis on the safety factor, he added. Capt. E. V. Rickenbacker, war ace and general manager of Eastern .Air Lines, told the gathering it would rot be long before airlines gave passengers "in comfort what you (Hughes) gave them in speed." He said aviation to him now was "a parade of youth and we old-timers feel obsolete." Taxi Owner Found Dead In Ditch Kitchener Spoitsraan's Murder Baffles Police â€" $17 Remaining in Pockets Ruling Out Robbery Theoryâ€" Car Half Off Road Near By Tongue Trapped â€" For having said in a ro .taurant that the German armed forces wei'e working for v/ar a r.i.".n ha.', been s mtcnced at Bruns- v.ick to live months' imprisonment. KITCHENERâ€" Local and Provincial police are faced with one of the most bafHing murder mysteries in this city's history following the discovery early Sunday morning of the body of Law- rence Hewitt, oO-yearo!d taxicab pro- prietor and prominent Kitchener sportsman. Shot through the heart with a .32- calibre bullet. Hewitt was found shortly after 2 a.m., sprawled in the luidly ditch beside the Kitchener- Preston Highway, two lufles east of hero and near Ceutreviile. Half off the road was his sedan car, its lisht switch turned on and the battery dead. A robbery theory was blasted when the police found in the dead man's poc- kfts $17 in bills and a few cents in casli. Hewitt was extremely popular her" and. so far as his family Is aware, he had no enemies. Called Out by Telephone -Vt 10 o'clock Sunday night tho tele- phone rang in bis home, v.'hero ho sat ll.sl';ning to a hockey broadcast with his wife and Bernard McGinu:s, a close friend. After answering the tele- phone. h;> returned to the roimi and announced that he had to go after a l:ire because one of his two drivers v.a.^ out on a call and tho other was off duty. 'Til be back in five min- i.t!';5.' ho said. Then he put mi his coat and went out. ll was the la-^t time he v.as spen alive. An eiTort was ;n:;de t!) tract? the mysiovlous cail that took the yoiia:; man away from his home and lured him to his (leath, but te!e- phoni' nScials were unable to throv.- any light upon its origin. Didn't Catch Conversatioti McCriunis doclaroil he \v,>j un:ible to caiUi any oC Hev.-:tl's [â- onver:-i;ition while he was answering the mysteri- ous '-all. 'The radio v.-as going pretty loudiv." said he. "and drowned out his words. The telephone is in another room. lie wa;; not spL-akins very Ion:? before he returned. I didn't think there was anythins unusual about the Cil:. '>ecause he ct'teii v.'cnt cut on n MS .vhile I wm there. Ontario Leads hi Hoime Lo?ais $1,C73,:SS Tc.^al - Fcr Ciclcj U' Feb. IS Wir-dcsr Olu'.wa.â€" With l."!77 ho:ne im- jrovemont loan:; recorded r.cross Canada vp to February Vi. Finaiu e Minister Dunning a:n;oUi:ccd recent- ly Sl.(!7.'),;{!)'i ha 1 been lo:ined up t.i that date. Incrca.c in loans fror,i .January 31 nuinbr:-c.l US :i:'.d :in!.";!it -d ! > 'Hi.-''"- Number of loans n'.ade in Ontario is nov.- more thi.n double that in any other province, the minister s:'.i !. 0:i February 15, Ontario had made l.UOil loan- v.-ith a total of $.58!,: r>. Qucbc, 7 18 loans ar.ioun- ting to 5387, 2<U and Dritish Col- umbia '.van third with .''>HI loans to- 37!). :nn3.73o.s;. Total loans and amount for the ot'.ier (.n-ovinces follow: Prin-e Edward Island 41, $1-4.- 040. S8; N'ova .Scotia l7t;, ;i;ilT.72.-).- 31) Xe'v Rrunswiek -2.35. S$i.i:i2.9-); Mar.iljba ISO. ?i;G,.570.9<t ; Saskat- chewan 125, $.5f>.3S5.2S; Aiberla. S7!i S 1:10,739. 84. Horn.' improven cnt loans in cities and to'.-.-ns with iMjpuIalion of 10.- 000 and over on February l.') num- bered l',500 and totalled .51.019. OtiS. Of this 1,G!)6 loans totalling .?7U.- ?72 had been made in cities of 40,- 000 po.Tilation and over. In cities from 2'J.OOO lo iO.Oi'O there w-,>:-l' 409 loans totalling .$150,(597. Tov.ns and cities with populations rnng- ing fro.'ii 10,000 to 20,000 accoun- ted for the remaininj: 401 loans to- talling S1S2,197. Toronto heads the li.st of cities; both in number of loans and in amount with 398 loans totalling §149,511. Montieal was ne.xt with 271 loans and a total of $148,297. Dominion- Wide Accord Reached on Securities Law Protection For Public Is .Assured â€" Toronto Meeting ^sks That Coni* panies Act Be Under Provincial Jurisdiction â€" Rules Are Laid Down TORONTO.â€" Complete accord on the niiuimum essentials of effective securities fraud prevention laws and their administration all over Canada was reached by the conference of Do- minion and Provincial officials con- vened at Toronto last week by W. P. J. 0'.Meara, K.C., Assistant Under-Sec- retary ot State. .\nd therefore this has been tho most momentous confer- ence yet held in Canada with regard to company or .lecurities let^lslation. becauao few thought a basis for com- mon action could be decided on so soon. Rut experts from every part of the Dominion pooled their experience and were able to find in the midst of diversity ot opinion, common ground for co-operative ;iction In every Pro- vince. The meetini; in Toronto was an c.ut- srowth of the meetini; of the Domini- on-Provincial Connniilee oa company law in Canada in Ottawa last Novem- ber. On the nupstion of getting a uni- form Companies Act for Dominion and all the Provinces the first real siiadc- work was then done, but differences of opinion on many points have to be iroiii'il out and sub-committees will work on th se at variou:; limes thr(:usbo..t 1!j,:7 with the object of havin.; dr:'.lt leiiislation ready tor l':i;' liaineut and Lej;i.-'ial!ire.'! hy l',);!S. Swi Forth Minimum Needs The need of affording in the mean- time ihe greatest possible protection to the Canadian investing public led lo ihc conference in Toronto last week. The decisions made at liiis coniVrence do not ueeil now legisla- tion in many cases. In most Provinces tho power already i':;ist.s to put them into ini ledlate effect by moans of re- gulations or by simply deciding on the new policy. Th^y are the minimum re(|uirf'!ucnts foi- erfective securities t.-aud prevention, and each Province can go much further if il wishes. Souii- of ih-m dcliniudy intend to do so. .\I)oui tlie much-dis.ussed proposal for a Dominion Securities ("otumissioii. the conf'-reuce is understood to have been unanimous. After considerable disc; ssiou a resolution was passed to the effect that a Federal Cumiiiissiou is neiilli-r necessary nor desirable. The results desired can be obtained, it was decided, by co-operatiou between the Dominion and each Provincial Seciir- iti'^s Commission. Legislation is ask- ed to briti',' the Doaiiuiou Companies Vancm ,er was t^'ird with 199 loans toialiinv .Si!ii,40>* then came Win- nipeg with 104 loans amounting to .'>ll,73t and Kdmonton with :'9 loans totalling $l'^.lir). Total ioaiis and ;uuounts for other cities of 40,000 and over follow: Halilax Oi), ,'<2.5..-,2l.()l ; .«aint John 73. .i;.!2,343.93; Quebec "V. S20,- .')f<i;.32; Verdun Ll, .$9,400: Hamil- ton 83. ?22.S()7.2i • London 64, .?24.- 207.27; Ottawa, S4, $41,231.77; VVindso, 7!), S2(J.-:21.77; Kcgina 14, $.5,."U4.S2: Saskatoon 8. $2,911; Calgary (i:">, .•?30."''-1.14 ; Victoria 3S, .?13.2l>ri.92. S5:v3 Cossip Drovs Her Out of Home Mi-.T. Mlchaelis Returp.^<^ To For Huobaad and Two Childisn After 12 Days' Absence Windsor â€" 'She was driven avay by gossip." said I,eonard Michailis when his 28 year-tdd v.'ife ri'turned to him and their two small children af- ter a 12-day disappearance. She had been with friends in Detroit, he said and left here for her former home in London, Out., where her mother was stricken ill with worry over hor daughter's disappearance. '•I think it is a gift of Ood that this happened." K:.id Michael, 'dt should loach oihers a l,>s>on. Act under the jurisdiction of each Pro- v!acial Commlssiou for adminiatratloa purposes In its region. All Securities Acts in the Domiuiun for all practical purposes are uniform now, but it Is considered important that iu future there should be common consideration by Securities ComniisBions of all the Proviucoa of amendments considered necessary to the Securities Acts so that iiniiormity in administration can be niainiainod. Two Countries Repre-sented Ihe conference of Uojuiniou and Provincial officials administering tha laws relating to Ihe prevention ot fraud in connection with securities in- cluded tho following: Priuc? Edward Ishmdâ€" P. S. Field- ing, Deputy Provincial Secretary. Xova Scotia â€" F. F .Mathers, Deputy Attorney-General. aii<l H. J. Egan. C. A.. Registrar. Securities Act. New Brunswickâ€" K. R. McLatchy, counsel. Department of .\iiorney-Gen. eral. QuL-hecâ€" Hon. T. .1. Coouan, K.C., Minister without portfolio; Adolph Routhier, K.C., Solicitor to Securities Department; J. X. Mercler, Atlorney- Deparlment of .\iines: and H. Ough- tred. Accountant -I uvostigator. Ontario â€" .John M. Godfrey, K.C., Se- curities Commissioner _ W. A. Brant, Registrar, Securiiies Aci ; and G. Frank Beer. Manitoba â€" \V. R. Coitiugham. K.C., Chairman. Municipal and Public Util- ities Biard; and A. B. Lawford, Regis- trar. Securities Act. Saskatchewan â€" A. U. Lawford, at the request of A. E. Fisher, represent- ed Saskatchewan. Albertaâ€" A. A. Carpenter, Chairman Public Utilities Commission. British Columbiaâ€" H. G. Garrett. Su- perintendent ot Brokers. The repri'sentativcs of the Domini- on were: E. H. Coleman. K.C.. Under- Secretary of SUte: \V. P. J. O'Meara, K.C., Assistant Undersecretary of State; and K. R. Daly, senior solicitor. Department of Mines and Resources. The Securities and E.tchange Com- mission was represented by: Baldwin B. Baae, chief. Registration Division, Washington; Ernest Angell. Regional Administrator. New York; and W. 'W. Prager, Chief Regional Attorney, New York. Hon. A. W. Roebuck. Attorney-Gea- eral. welcomed the visitors at the op- ening meeting. People today do not seem to live right. All they do is talk and gos- sip. Here is an example where gos- sip drove a mother from her home." His wife gave no reason for her disappearance other than that she "wanted to get away from every- thing," Michaels said. They have two small children, a daughter, aga 6, and a son, aged 4. The young mother had been missing since Feb. 22, when she left for Detroit, "to go shopping and perhaps see a show." Report On Census Takers Is Tabled OTT-VW.A. â€" Enomerators employ- ed in taking the census last year in the Prairie Provinces numbered 3,4 I C, Hon. Norman Rogers, acting S''inioter of Trade and Commerce, told tho House of Commons recent- ly in answer to i|Uestons by Joseph Needham (S.C.-Uie Battlefords). "How many of these were return- ed men?" the Saskatchewan mem- ber asked. "Forty-seven of ti.'> conimi.ssionerS reported 4.52," the Minister re- plied. Locomotives of the <'xpress typa use about two Ua:s of coal every 100 miles. Yankees Rush Into Training limbering up and getting rid of the avoirdupois accumulated during tlio wintei. m.'nibeiii > .N'ew York Yanke« jog .-\round the field as spring training gels under way at their Sb Petursbur," camp.